About the Urban Flux

“Prayers” is a breathtaking piece from his “Month of Sunday Collection” painted by renown visionary & street artist Frank Morrison.

Greetings jazz enthusiast thanks so much for visiting The Urban Flux. First of all, the initial purpose of this Blog is driven by my faith, love, compassion and zeal to share with you the immeasurable sounds of jazz along with upcoming new artists that’s probably located somewhere near you that the rest of the world hasn’t heard yet.

In the meantime, one thing you may find interesting or possibly annoying at times is the content posted throughout this blog is and will always be a work in progress. In other words, there is continuum of diversity which encompasses music news, reviews, artists and whatever else might draw music aficionados in dialogue to keep America’s original musical art form in the forefront where it deserves to be.

Quote: [John 3:16-18] – “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

[1 John 1:9-10] – 9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.”

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am – my faith, my knowledge, my being … When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups … I want to speak to their souls.” —John Coltrane

All custom graphics other then album images, press, media banners and photos on this Blog where created by yours truly Rob Young for Urban Flux Media.

I’m sure the majority of visitors to this blog is already registered to VOTE, but if you know someone that might not be please continue to encourage them to register because the enemy of regular folks in this country. The one% and the wannabes are doing everything in their power to prevent people [47% plus equals 99%] from doing what the constitution gives all of a right to do VOTE! These are evil times so we must do what is right to combat these mean-spirited obstructionists!

I wanted to let you know that I have created a collection of jazz images on a site called Spectives. Your site is one that I have added to the collection and if you want to take a look here is the link http://www.spectives.com/jazzy

Hi Cary, no problem. I’m always looking for new music by upcoming musicians. My address is not the same as Terrill’s because we live in different locations. I’ll e-mail my address if that’s alright with you? Thanks for stopping by with peace, Rob

First of all, thanks for visiting. Sorry about the mishap with your name, however I corrected it and thanks for taking your time to point this out. And please, if you will tell Howard that he has great success with his new project.

Hi Mrs. Gabbie McGee, thanks for stopping by and sharing your kindness. It’s an honor for me to even hear about artist like you, let alone share this information with others is a joy! Bless you and yours in your life’s journey, may your live it abundantly!

Hey Rob,
Wanted to hip you to my new jazz blog. As a publicist in the jazz biz for the past 15 years I’ve worked a ton of great music some of which you’ve reviewed at The Urban Flux and I thank you. I’ll make sure you get all of our press releases at your gmail address. I believe you also may have found me under my nom de plumme, Vic Bradley at http://stmonkey.blogspot.com where i write about culture and the arts including some jazz pieces.

Hi Brad/Vic,
Thank you my friend for your generous words of encouragement. It looks like we need to put our heads together and see what happens! I’ll check out your Blog this evening! Peace and blessings, Rob

My name is Alex Hoffman and I’m the tenor sax player from the recent Brian Lynch “Unsung Heroes” record that you reviewed on your blog. I was wondering if I could have your address so I could send you my own debut recording as a leader on Smalls Records, for which Brian Lynch was a consultant. Thank you for giving such kind attention to our music and I hope to hear from you soon.

Rob, what a beautiful site you have produced with both your words and the visual dynamics. I look forward to checking it out even further, within the archives, etc.

Is my understanding correct that you will no longer be making entries? I hope not! But if it’s true, I hope that it is for reasons that are not unfortunate, and I wish you all the best in all of your future endeavors. We need more people like you.

HI Rob, congratulations for your blog, it looks really interesting. If you have time check out thids project and tell me what do you think about it.http://www.nusica.org/o3_eng.html
best regards
Nicola

I handle artist on Greg Osby’s Inner Circle Music including one you mentioned in your Urban Flux blog, Russell Kirk – thank you for that. Would love to send you several other for your review if you don’t mind. Can we exchange emails? Thanks.

Hi Ester, thanks for your comment. I’d love to listen and review your artist but at the moment this blog is inactive as content goes. Thank you so much, I will email you for future reference. Peace, Rob